The Fly (UK)'s Scores
- Music
For 370 reviews, this publication has graded:
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61% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: | Channel Orange | |
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Lowest review score: | Sequel to the Prequel |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 262 out of 370
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Mixed: 99 out of 370
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Negative: 9 out of 370
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It’s a pitching and yawing listen, and it’s compelling and punchy in a way that’ll have you bouncing straight out of your chair.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Apr 15, 2013
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In throwing his emotional locker wide open, Frank Ocean has made a tender, engrossing classic.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Aug 2, 2012
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- Posted Feb 5, 2013
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It might be as modern as loincloth, but ‘California X’ is surely a future classic.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Dec 17, 2013
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Frankly, it’s a delightful, demented journey into pure psych chaos. Essential listening.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Aug 20, 2013
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Deerhoof's eleventh album continues their long tradition of delighting and confounding in equal measure.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Oct 26, 2012
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- Posted Oct 14, 2013
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This is Peace using 90s sounds to channel that decade’s optimism into something positive for today.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Jun 7, 2013
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- Posted Sep 20, 2013
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- Posted Aug 31, 2012
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The Oklahoma songwriter is back with some of her most ebullient, ambitiously styled music to date on St Vincent.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Feb 14, 2014
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Impressively diverse but united by a strain of quintessentially Maccabeean hopeless hopefulness, it's an outpouring of both technical brilliance and affective emotion that thrives in its sheer humanity.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Feb 10, 2012
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- Posted Jan 9, 2013
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- Posted Sep 21, 2012
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Something's exquisite charms confirm that Chairlift mk.II are a much-improved proposition.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Feb 10, 2012
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Oozing more nihilistic youthful abandonment than anyone since Black Lips, their manifesto sounds pretty appealing from here.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Feb 15, 2013
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- Posted Feb 10, 2012
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Occasionally the bare-bones arrangements, a virtue in the main, serve to expose minor shortcomings in the songs. But overall, it’s a quibble far outweighed by the thrill afforded by a record that’s as honest and open-hearted as anything this great band have put their names to yet.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Feb 12, 2014
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With Loud City Song, Julia Holter marks the scene’s zenith, continuing her journey from obscurity, through marginality and onwards into accessibility.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Aug 13, 2013
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These are songs that flinch as much as they fight, that veer wildly into strange territories but never overindulge and that, essentially, draw all of the best bits from Coxon's weird and wonderful arsenal into one inimitable package.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Mar 30, 2012
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Irrespective of genre or decade, 'Rispah' is an astonishing tsunami of emotion which above all, makes you feel alive.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Jun 29, 2012
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Constantly exhilarating, it's a sensory obliteration that proves that now, more than ever, APTBS are much more than just noise.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Jun 8, 2012
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[WIXIW is] dizzying, discordant and heavily rhythmic, as Andrew, Hemphill and Gross weave found sounds, freaky fragments of melancholy off-kilter melody, spiralling keyboard motifs, flurries of strings and distorted vocals and riffs through electronics that crunch and crack like shattered glass.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Jun 1, 2012
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- Posted Jun 8, 2012
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While some of the abstract material here is frustratingly opaque, how many other ‘pop’ acts can you name that would have the brass cojones to drop a near 20-minute track right in the middle of their record? Astonishing.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Apr 2, 2013
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- Posted Jan 11, 2013
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- Posted May 21, 2013
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It's an album that reels you in, enveloping everything in a black mist, from the slick protestations of 'Dark Star' to the surging intensity of closer 'Leading To Death'.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Apr 20, 2012
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Their LP betrays nothing other than attention to detail, enviable knowledge of their musical history and the ability to chisel hunks of belligerent punk that could revitalise the genre.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Jul 27, 2012
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It's a record that effortlessly juxtaposes chopped up electronics and ghostly effects with James' supersweet voice to create eleven strange but simple pleasures.- The Fly (UK)
- Posted Jul 20, 2012
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